Question 6
What Have Your Learned About Different Media Technology While Developing Your Media Product?
While progressing through the many tasks leading up to the planning, during the planning and the actual making of the Opening Title Sequence, we have learned many different things about the technologies we used for each project. When making the Opening Title Sequence we used the multiple types of hardware during the production. Some of the hardware we used was filming equipment which we had to learn to use effectively in order to achieve our filming projects with a good quality. Some of the hardware we had to use involved a camera, tripod and microphone. The camera we used had multiple settings that could help produce different effects on the clip as well as filters. The camera had to be on the appropriate settings in order achieve shots which looked good.
While progressing through this entire project from start to finish we had to learn how each of the hardware and software used worked in relation with each other and how to produce the best results from using them effectively. For some in the group, it was their first time using equipment and software like this and thus they had to learn how everything worked right down to the basics and slowly build their knowledge through practice and exploration of each things functions.
While progressing through this entire project from start to finish we had to learn how each of the hardware and software used worked in relation with each other and how to produce the best results from using them effectively. For some in the group, it was their first time using equipment and software like this and thus they had to learn how everything worked right down to the basics and slowly build their knowledge through practice and exploration of each things functions.
Main Technologies (Software)
Final Cut Pro
When we had attained all of the clips we had needed to construct the Opening Title Sequence and they were to a good quality. To place these clips together and make the Opening Title Sequence we used the editing software Final Cut Pro on the Mac OSX. Final Cut Pro allows us to place all of our clips in a timeline and manipulate them in several ways to enhance them and connect them with other clips to make a continuous video. Final Cut can be used to cut the clips down to the parts specifically needed and remove any part you don't want. Using this can help you to place different scenes out of order or shorten them for more fast paced shots for the video sequence. Final Cut Pro also had effects to use which can apply filters onto the clips or even manipulate each frame of the clip to change the lighting if needed. Final Cut's timeline feature helps to make editing the various clips and audio together with ease.
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Weebly
When researching and planning in preparation for the Opening Title Sequence we used the website creation website Weebly as a host for our content. Weebly allows the creation for websites or blogs that can be edited together using various easy to use functions. On Weebly you can easily use the tools to change layouts of text, titles and images to achieve a slick and professional layout. Weebly also allows for interactive elements to be placed on the webpages you create through embedding code from an interactive source into the webpage. This feature can be used to place in interactive presentations and slideshows with extra information. Most of the text based features of Weebly are very similar or the same as those found on Microsoft's Word Documentation Software.
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Assisting Technologies (Software)
YouTube
YouTube is an online video entertainment service that has millions of videos uploaded to it for many different purposes whether discussion, entertainment or informational. YouTube for us served as a platform to be able to insert our video's we edited together using Final Cut Pro. Using Final Cut we were able to export them as a complete video clip, however Weebly needed us to place our video on a compatible host site first. YouTube is a compatible host site and is one of the most popular websites on the internet. We were able to upload our video onto YouTube as a user of the website and then place the actual YouTube video onto our Weebly website pages.
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ClipConverter
ClipConverter is an online website that takes online video clips and reformats them into other file types. We used ClipConverter to be able to take audio from YouTube and be able to use them in our video sequences. We did this because we wanted to convert the YouTube video's from an MPEG4/AVI/WMV/FLV filetype into an MP3 file type as we exclusively wanted the audio.
We were then able to import the reformatted file into Final Cut Pro as a new audio clip which we could keep stored in our library until we needed to use it for a specific project like the Opening Title Sequence. |
After finishing the Opening Title Sequence we learned that many different types of technologies go into making an effective video sequence of just a few minutes long, let alone a whole trailer or movie. We learned of the different levels of complexity each piece of equipment we used had towards making sure the material we were able to get was good quality and useful for us to use. For some in the group, using these technologies for the first time was rather daunting due to the professional models of hardware and software we were able to put to use. Through lots of experimentation while trying to complete each task we all learned more and grew our knowledge base with all of these different technologies.